Category: Quilts in Progress

Thangles Galore.  You might think that sounds like the female lead in a James Bond movie.  But no, Thangles are a wonderful quilting tool that enables one to make scads and scads of half square triangles without sewing on bias edges or drawing stitching lines on the fabric. The first step is cutting your fabric […]

Things are coming along.  Slowly but surely they are coming together.  Enough of the pink and brown blocks have been sewn that I can lay out the center portion of the Raise the Roof design and actually get a preview of what it will look like when finished!  It seems so creative of the pattern […]

I’ve mentioned the difficulty I am having with constructing my pink and brown star blocks for my Raise the Roof quilt.  The blocks take forever to lay out properly and there are many ways to make errors in the orientation and position of the block elements.  I have been procrastinating about sitting down and facing […]

The Fatquarter Challenge is on!  I couldn’t wait to get started with all the cutting that is required for my Celebrate Spring quilt.  Normally, cutting is a zen like activity for me, one that I actually enjoy.  This project is no exception, and I found much satisfaction in tossing the trimmings into my waste basket […]

My friend Darlene at Quilting Daze has a lot of good ideas.  One day not too long ago, she emailed me to say she had a thought….no, she wouldn’t tell me….well OK, she would…. This is more or less what she said:  "Since we have such incredibly similar taste in quilt projects, how would it […]

I spent five hours on Sunday working on my Raise the Roof quilt blocks, using the In the Pink fabric line.  I think this one could be a real winner, provided I can get through the challenges I am experiencing with the star blocks.  The quilt top is made up of two different quilt blocks, […]

Yesterday I picked up two more finished quilts from my long arm quilter.  Now I have a total of six quilts that need the binding made and sewn on.  Since one quilt is for Halloween and another for Christmas, I am feeling quite un-guilty about leaving those for another day.  The other four quilts are […]

My new project involves a new Miss Rosie pattern called "Raise the Roof" and a yummy brown and pink fabric collection called "In the Pink" by Buggy Barn.  It also involves a gazillion flying geese units.  What I would like to share with you today is a method for flying geese that is accurate, effective […]

One of my blogging friends, Darlene, has referred on her blog to our mutual quilting buddy Lisa, as an evil temptress.  Lisa has a way of discovering a gorgeous new fabric group and extolling its virtues to Darlene and I, and despite our vows of abstinence, luring us into purchasing the fabric collections for ourselves.  […]

My talented blogging friend Darlene has a recent post on a Spring Snowballs quilt she has completed.  It has been extremely warm where she lives, and she wanted a cool reminder of Spring.  Please check out her site for a photo and description of her project; it is just beautiful.  Her post jogged my memory, […]